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[halftime]

Doppel and Nihilist: Ha! Duly noted. I haven't found any magma yet, but I'll keep digging!

Burnt Pies: artifact sword

Seasonal update--Summer 1053

Captain Brunch has taken to wielding the legendary sword Coversilence. She was last seen hauling a barrel of wine to the surface, presumably to drink while sitting beneath a jungle tree, watching for passing beasties to eviscerate. So far, however, the caverns have proven more dangerous than the wilderness above. The most recent threat was a giant olm, a gargantuan froglike beast. It was no match for our military squad, of course, and now the citizens of the fortress are busy dining on olm meat and stitching together olm-leather bags.

Ashford continues to do stellar work in the kitchen, yet she will not be satisfied until she has access to a magma-powered oven. The miners have been ordered to dig ever deeper in search of a magma vent.

Our mechanic was busily building traps to protect our fortress from further intrusions when a cheesemaker barged in, forcibly kicked him out of the workshop, and began piecing together a truly remarkable mechanism from shale and various crystals. It is a marvel to behold, and it's almost a shame to see it put to use in some simple trap.

I have been approached by an aspiring doctor named Nye, who styles himself "The Professor." He was excited to show me some of his research on "curing" elves and humans, transforming them into happy, healthy dwarves. So far we have not had any elven or human visitors, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time. He's requested a laboratory so that he will be prepared when they do arrive.

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Nye "The Professor":

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[Nihilist]

I can seriously see the Prof talking a human in to becoming a dwarf, eyeing his kneecaps. A quick thwamp with a cleaver, a few bandages and and a pair of spidersilk shoes and the newly made dwarf happily walks off a good 2 feet shorter. Of course, its hard to tell if hes really happy or not with that kitten sutured to his face, but he really should have grown a beard before the operation.

I now also can't help but imagine his bedside manner, Very social and charismatic, deftly spinning a surgical tool around his fingers with his idle hand. As he finishes the sutures, he snatches and eats the wayward acorn flies interested in the surgery. Wraps the wound and then uses some extra bandage as a napkin.

[halftime]

Hehehe! Nice. Also, I've seen acorn flies in the overworld map. I need to figure out how to catch them...

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Seasonal update--Autumn 1053:

A battle with a big troll put Captain Brunch in the hospital (and the troll in the refuse pile). Looks like I really need to expand the size of the military, to tip the odds in our favor.

Other than that, not much happened in the past season.

[Tuxman]

Yes well, The Professor is a cheery Doctor who is nice to his patients and very personable. He just thuroughly believes that humanity and elfishness is a disease.

He doesn't react to people thinking he is wierd. He just goes as if he was a cheery doctor.

Thats what makes him creepy.

And he doesn't believe in suturing kittens to humans faces. He uses a hair transplant from the patients head and/or other hairy body parts. Better bald and bearded than haired and beardless.

His current solution to curing humans and elves is to remove a large portion of their spine. No volunteers have survived the process.

[Arni]

Awww... Already dead

Well, I appreciate though that a great hall is going to be created in memorial to Arni.

Arnis last moments

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The plan worked well enough. The water was drained and the ground was clear again to dig. Full eagerness to finally he would be able to strike good solid stone. He had sure enough of that dirt digging, even though it was a good mining practice. Ferocious striking the floor, he dug step after step. A bit of mist gently surrounded him. That mist was indeed very lovely.
While digging he started daydreaming of the great dining hall he would be able to dig. A marvelous one that all the mountain home would envy! Miners would travel to it, to let themselves inspire for great halls, but non to be a awe striking as this he would carve out of the rock with his own hands! As he stopped hitting the rock to look at his own hands he realized, that he was already engulfed in water. How could this happen? Did his plan fail? Did the dwarf he entrusted with pumping the water fail him? His lungs cried for air. The attempt to scramble up the now submerged stair (he could not swim, like most dwarves). The tidy hewn steps were covered in soggy mud. The mud grabbed his feet every step. Arni barely managed to heave his feet out of the pitiless mud, just to settle them again in the mud at the next step.
The last bit of air left his lungs and he floated backwards, down again to the ground. His pick still stubbornly in his hand. Is this how it should end? The great hall would die with him. No fame it would bring to this settlement and no fame to him. No other dwarf could awestruck stare up the giant, smooth pillars he formed in his mind already and would just have had to carve. He would not get a grave in the central spire of the hall, so he could be together with his lives work for all eternity. His body would rot in this submerged hole.
Then Avuz came to Arni. Grabbing his free hand to lead him to the eternal mountain homes where his ancestors waited for him, Avuz promised him he would get the chance of realizing his dream in the eternal mountain halls. He would be one of the most honored dwarves to carve one of the eternal great halls, where the dwarves sat together drinking mead, ale and wine to all eternity.
His mind had left his body already when Arnis earthly lungs released the last bit of air and ceased the struggle.

I'd like an other dwarf. A male one that joins the military as a warrior wielding an axe. Named Laranto please.

[Burnt Pies]

Get better soon, Capn!

how severe are her injuries?